CALA Presenta
CALA organizes programs with local, national, and international artists. Artists present public programs and community engagements as part of CALA Presenta.
2024 Programming
Art Talk /// Legacy And Innovation
On Monday, November 4, 2024, Chef Rene Andrade in partnership with CALA Alliance hosted a dinner and discussion with local artists and community members to honor the life and literary work of Phoenix’s own, Chef Silvana Salcido - Esparza (Barrio Cafe). Phoenix Culinary chefs Chef Silvana Salcido, Chef Rene Andrade (James Beard Award) and Chef Antonio Padilla (Huarachis) shared insights on Mexican cuisine and traditions in the United States, and the importance of legacy and innovation in the culinary art space moderated by Stephanie Roman, executive director at CALA Alliance.
2023 Programming
Art Talk /// Constellations – Artistic Responses, Migrating Identities, and Displacement
On Wednesday, September 6, 2023, the Phoenix Art Museum in partnership with CALA Alliance hosted a discussion with artists Carlos Martiel and Luis Rivera Jiménez, and Irasema Coronado, director and professor of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, in a conversation about artistic and aesthetic responses to migration, immigration, and displacement, moderated by Alana Hernandez, executive director at CALA Alliance and curator of LatinX art at the ASU Art Museum.
2022 Programming
José Villalobos
A Blind America, 2022
CALA Presenta Charlas
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ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA
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KATHRYN GARCÍA
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VICTORIA MARTÍNEZ
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VINCENT VALDEZ
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SARAH ZAPATA
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ISA CARRILLO
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LESLIE MARTINEZ
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MARIEL MIRANDA
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LUIS RIVERA JIMENEZ
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ALEJANDRO MACIAS
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Sarah Zapata
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Mariana Ramos Ortiz